Brush guard



C. PISTORIUS July 1, 1930.

BRUSH GUARD Filed March 7, 1929 6 a 2'1 Pistorz'us INVENTOR.

BY 4 fiQATTORNEYS.

Patented July 1', 1930 UNHTED STAT PATENIQFHQE:

CARL PISTORIUS, on NEW YORK, in. Y.

nnusn GUARD Application filed March 7,

' My invention refers to a guard for brushes which serve for theapplication of liquids in wetting, painting, agitating ormixingoperations.

In perfecting my invention I had various objects in mind, some of whichrefer, generally, to brushes used for applying pastes or liquids toobjects. Other objects of my invention refer in'parti cular to shavingbrushes. Some of these objects are, first, to provide a protection ona-brush, preventing a splashing, dripping, running or seeping of theliquid contained in the brush proper onto. the hand of the user; second,to provide yieldable means which retain the brush in its most usefulshape; third, to provide a space below and around the brush and thehandle into which an excess of fluid contained in. the brush part isconducted, when it is squeezed out of said brush or drains backward fromsaid brush, during the use of the brush; fourth, to provide means toreturn the fluid from said space into the brush whenever desired; fifth,to provide means to remove my improved guard from the brush so as toallow thorough cleansing and drying of said brush sixth, to providemeans on a brush which allow it to be laid down without permitting thebrush proper to come into contact with the surface upon which the brushis deposited.

These and other objects I attain by the device illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in'which,

Figure 1 shows a sectioned side elevation of a brush to which myimprovement is attached.

Figure 2 shows a corresponding top view.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the various views. v

The brush proper consists of the hair or bristles 3, which are suitablyretained in a stem 4. The stem 4 is provided with a .protruding rim 5along its cylindrical'circumference 9. From the end of the stem extendsa threaded member 6, which fits into a tapped hole 7 in the handle 8 andby means of which the brush part and the handle are assembled. Thehandle 8 flares outwardly, in the back, to a point 16 of greatestdiameter, the large diameter of the handle at this point 1929. SerialNo. 344,986.

serving to give to the'handle a base upon which the brush can firmlystand when set down upon a horizontal surface in the posidricalcircumference 9 of the stem of the brush. On one end said sleeve 11 isprovided with a bead 12, at the other end it merges into a sphericallyshaped cup 13. To the cup 13 connects, at the point where said cupsurrounds the hair 3 of the brush, the shield :14 which has the shape ofa hollow truncated andjthe handle are taken apart. I I am how-- evernot. limited to a brush of the particular shape shown, in the use of myimproved guard, but said guard may be slipped over the end of any brushand placed into a position corresponding to the one in which it is shownin Figure 1, since I make my guard out of a flexible andyieldablematerial, preferably rubber. v p I I When the brush is in use the cup 10rests, in the position shown, against the rim 5 on the cylindricalcircumference 9 of stem 4. Describing in the following a method in whichI use my improvements I have, exemplarily, reference to their use wit-hashaving brush. Shaving cream is placed into the hair of the brush orthe brush is dipped into a mixture or solution of soap and the brush isapplied to the face of the user. When the end of the brush impinges uponthe face of the user'and pressure is exerted, some of the fluidcontained in the hair of the brush is squeezedout of said brush andsplashes, drips or runs down into the. shield 14 of the guard 10, and itis thus prevented from reaching the hand of the user which grasps andholds the handle 8. The fluidretained by the shield passes into thehollow space on the inside of cup 13 by means of gravity so liquid, butis adapted to receive additional fluids squeezed out of the brush, whichalso drain down into the hollow space on the inside of the cup 13, aslong as the brush is held in a substantially upright position.

. When the user of the brush desires to replenish the supply of asolution or mixture of soap contained in the hair of the brush, he maybring about this replenishing by dipping the brush into his source ofsupply of such fluid, but he also may simply grip the brush a littlehigher so that his hand extends around the cup 18, press together theyieldable material out of which said cup is made and thereby forces theliquid contained in said cup into the hair of the brush, whereby thebrush becomes wet again. When the purpose for which the brush was usedhas been accomplished the user may remove the surplus of liquid whichhas been drained into the hollow space of cup 13, by repeating theoperation of squashing said cup so that the llquid 1s forced out of it,he may leave it in there for use at another time, or he may slide thesleeve. part 11 of the guard 10 backward along the properties of theguard allowing the guard to be pulled overthe larger cross section ofthe handle.

"in the form of embodiment ofmy invention, 1 withoutdeparting from thespiritand scope thereof.

I claim:

An elastic article of manufacture adapted to be removably mounted uponthe stem of a brush and to extend over. thebrush member of said brush,comprising means forretaining said article on said stem, an outwardlyflared shield encircling and engaging said Ibrush member along alineremote from saidflstem, and a hollow, collapsible spherically shapedmember connecting said means to said shield and closed at itsopposite'ends saidstem and brush member respectively. 7 r

Signed at New York, in the county offlNew York and State of New Yorkthis 5 day of March A. D. 1929.

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open at that end; then the hair of the brush as wellas the brush may bereadily washed and cleaned, if the user desired to do so.

The advantages entailed in the use of my guard, which have beendescribed above in the connection wit-hits use on a shaving brush,

of pertain in like manner to the use of my guard a of the brushtogether, the paint dripping or flowing backward from the brush iscollected in the shield 14 from where it is drained through the body ofthe brush member into the hollow space on the inside of cup 13; the

, hollow space on the inside'of said cup serves as a storage space fromwhich the painter 7 may readily replenish the supply of paint in thehair or bristles of the brush by squeezing said cup together, preferablyholding the brush in a downward position while doing so. When the hairor bristles of the brush or the inside of the guard 10 are to becleaned, the guard may be pushed backward, towards the handle, sleeve 11sliding along the cylindrical circumference 9 of the stem 4, or'theflexible and yieldable guard 10 may be entirely removed from the brush,by taking said brush apart, if said brush is constructed in the mannershown in the drawings, or by pulling it off the brush, over thehandle,the elastic

